[epeek06]

Appologies to the others for having gone off course, I should have created a seperate thread for it.

Yes lets go back to the concorde!

[VintageKrug]

I prefer simply “Concorde”.

Prefixes are superfluous, in this case.

[BeckyBoop]

Wait!!! (sorry the rest of you)

VK… shut up, you have never been in there! I suppose you were asking members of your staff who have??..lol :O)

I have to admit i have never been to Fabric or Boujis for that matter.

Now back to the topic…

Can’t BA just cut it up and sell the parts at auction at least that way they can make some money out of it instead of wasting money paying rent to the BAA of just letting it rot on the ground.

Or

Perhaps move it to an empty pier at T5 and perhaps charge travellers £2 to walk on it have a look around while waiting for their flight?

[TerryMcManus24]

Purely by co-incidence and on the subject had rummage at the weekend and found my last old Concorde Flight Certificate…

….goes on (wonderfully)…has joined the select group who have travelled at Mach II in the worlds first supersonic passenger aircraft.

Signed by Brian Calvert ..

What would he have thought now about his aircraft lying dumped behind a hanger somewhere.

Also got an old copy of Highlife dated March 1977…..good reading:

In flight price list (obviously free but not on reg flights at the time)

All minitures..whisky-Vodca etc……35P
Champagne-quarter bottle…………..80P
Cigarettes Pk x 20………………………..28P
Chanel No5………………………………….5 Pound.

BA associated Hotels
London Penta (remember)…………13 Pounds / night
Excelsiors/Holiday Inns………………10 Pounds/ night
The Portman………………………………..24 Pounds / night

George V -Paris…………………………..300 FF.

Escort Car (hire)…………………………..4 Pound/day
Granada 3.0GL……………………………10 Pounds/day

also just noticed and to confirm the Wines served on board that day were…..

Dom Perignom…………..1969
Chateau Cantenac…….1970
and
Chablis-Laroche………..1975….hic

[VintageKrug]

Ha! Ha!

I don’t have a phalanx of staff left, they’ve mostly been shot for making shocking errors while typing up my dictated responses on the BT forum!

My one remaining helper is considerably older than me and not particularly the target market for Boujis.

I’ll admit I don’t recall much about Fabric, though it was a pleasant sunrise! I think you’d enjoy Boujis, and I feel certain you’d be quite a hit there!

I like your suggestion about charging people to access the airframe, however, stands are in extremely short supply at LHR, and rent is also charged for using these facilities, much more than just “leaving [her] (never it!) to rot” on the apron near Hatton Cross.

Second, I honestly don’t think an attraction at LHR would be any better than one based at one of the excellent museum sites.

£2 is too small a sum to make it worthwhile.

Finally, the interior is reportedly somewhat damp, with piles of rotting High Life magazines being used to provide ballast to stop her keeling over since many of the avionics have been removed.

Sad indeed 🙁

[BigDog.]

BA museum have already (under) sold one of the iconic nose cones.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006435/Youve-spent-100-000-WHAT-Husband-buys-Concorde-nose-cone-telling-wife.html

[Goldcardsaplenty]

Well, I hate to say it but if VK is correct and the old girl is ‘somewhat damp, with piles of rotting High Life magazines being used to provide ballast’ then maybe young BeckyBoop is right after all and she should be unceremoniously dragged off to the knackers yard just like poor old Boxer in Animal Farm. Concorde that is, not Becky.

Yet another example of shoddy, short-sighted British (mis)Management…..

I now have a rather surprising/disturbing image of VK ‘throwing some shapes’ in a nightclub

[VintageKrug]

Ah! I like the Boxer analogy!

Goldcards, I’d suggest a nice cup of tea and a sit down after what must have been a traumatic vision. Just think of Thora Hird, before her sad passing, and that usually puts the wind back in one’s sails.

[BeckyBoop]

Other suggestions…

1. They could always bury it under LHR and put up a tombstone as a memorial

2. Burn it up, put the ashes in an urn and put them on display in T5 somewhere.

Goldcardsaplenty, I am still in stitches of the thought… lol 😉

[epeek06]

3. Donate the concorde to Top Gear 😉

[Goldcardsaplenty]

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1148436

[VintageKrug]

Perhaps it should be delivered to Clarkson’s Cotswold home; it would sit nicely next to his Lightning.

[openfly]

Turn it into supersonic saucepans! A really good talking point in the kitchen for the staff…..

[MartynSinclair]

recycle and make some Concorde cars………….a really good talking point in the pub car park!

[NameRemoved-18/12/14]

I had not been to Heathrow since Christmas Day, but on Sunday I spotted Concorde in a much more prominent position opposite T1. I also spied an openskies 757 on the same side of the hangars.

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